Oxford: No shaming in sex ed classes

District takes issue with LA Times report

11:30 PM,
Apr. 4, 2014

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A recent article in the Los Angeles Times describing teachers in Oxford schools using a shaming technique in sex education classes is misleading on how the abstinence-plus program is taught, the district's superintendent says.

The article, which was picked up by Slate.com, said teachers in the Mississippi district were passing around York Peppermint Pattie candies in classes and asking the last student who touched the chocolate if he or she would be willing to eat the treat after it had been passed around the room.

The method, according to the Times article, was intended to show how teens ...